Adding fuel to the fire, Summoner's future

[Rex]

Just wanted to say I support everyone's gripes with the summoner regarding mechanics and underwhelming design, personally I'd like to see egis be more important to a summoner's dps etc. and more individuality regarding the egis' mechanics/uses, along with their models, to get some visual improvements, mostly detail and size. Making them a little bigger or giving them more detail shouldn't get in the way of anything regarding MMO limitations.

I can understand lore-wise if this is just the beginning for what is to come, so if you have plans to give each egi some sort of upgraded state/form with more importance to the job as the level goes up that would be amazing, and their current almost child-like forms would become a part of their development story-wise to summoning greater amounts of essence, although so far I haven't seen anything that would lead me to see that happening, so if you could give us any sort of info regarding the summoner's future I would really appreciate it!

I can't be the only one that wishes they'd have implemented FFXI version of Summoner. After seeing those summons, you can only be disappointed to see anything less.

You both need to read the article addressing why the dev team decided to go with the design of the Egis that they did.

I don't have the direct link, but what they basically said:

1. Since there are multiple summoners, they don't want EVERYONE to be summoning THE Ifrit (for example.) So each person learns how to summon an "essence" of Ifrit. Thus, the Ifrit-Egi. They did not want them to be smaller "copies" of the same Ifrit model...like the summons are in XI.

2. They felt if the summons were like the ones in XI, it'd be very annoying (and possibly straining for people's computers) to have 50 garudas and ifrits and titans on your screen in a FATE like with Odin or Behemoth encounters. You all know how insane it is now. Now imagine XI styled summons instead of smaller Egis...